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Dixon Award Recognizes Outstanding Service to Tax Profession

Pamela J. Pecarich, CPA, received the Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award,
the highest award given by the AICPA in the area of taxation.

Pecarich has been chief policy analyst for the House Ways and
Means Committee, staff director for the House Ways and Means
Subcommittee on Oversight, director of the Office of Policy and
Planning at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, committee staff
consultant to the California State Assembly’s Committee on Revenue and
Taxation, and a member of the IRS Commissioner’s Advisory Group.

She was also a partner and director of tax policy for Coopers and
Lybrand LLP, National Tax Services.

She served as chairwoman of the AICPA Tax Executive Committee as
well as the Institute’s Tax Legislative Liaison Committee, the Tax
Shelter Issues Task Force and the task force that updated the AICPA’s
report on fundamental tax reform in 2005.

The award, given by the Tax Division of the AICPA, honors Arthur J.
Dixon, chairman of the AICPA’s Tax Executive Committee from 1977 to
1980.

Robert Zarzar, a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, member of
the AICPA Board of Directors and former chairman of the Tax Executive
Committee, presented the award at the National Conference on Federal
Taxes in Washington.

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